For the soaring price of natural gas in the European market, European countries and the European Union, in addition to playing tricks, can not come up with any practical countermeasures. The high price of natural gas in the European Union has caused a crisis of industrial shutdowns, but Russia's every move has a greater impact. As the German media said - the price of natural gas is a matter of Putin's casual words.
German media reported on the 3rd that the power of Putin's "one sentence" can be seen from the price fluctuation of natural gas in Europe. Putin casually said a word, so that Europe's long-incurable energy prices began to fall, which has a great impact on Europe's gas crisis.
Putin's "casual words" are like this, "Once the capacity of our natural gas reserve facilities here reaches the upper limit, the Russian gas companies will gradually increase their reserves of natural gas reserves within European countries." Putin instructed the country's gas companies to say.
In response to Putin's instructions, the head of Gazprom immediately responded, saying, "We also intend to do this." After receiving feedback, Putin asked the head of the company to keep it informed of Russian gas reserves and when it would be available to European countries.
German media reported, "See, it is Putin's casual words to his own national enterprises, so that the concerns of European countries about blue energy have been greatly alleviated." This can be seen in the price of natural gas on the European market. German media stressed that almost after Putin said these words, the price of natural gas in the Dutch market fell by 15%.
"This incident shows that Russia occupies the absolute initiative in European energy. Although Putin did not say how much gas quota will be provided to Europe again outside the plan, and Russian companies have not promised when they will provide natural gas, but the European market has reacted in time and immediately made a correction in prices. Analysts say that as far as energy is concerned, Europe's dependence will lose its initiative on issues related to energy.
Russian media reported that in the past period of time, natural gas in the European market has experienced two "crazy stages". In the Dutch market, for example, the value of natural gas in the country's energy market was about $500 per thousand cubic meters in early August, but a month later, the price rose to $1,000. By October, that price had almost doubled again. At $1,937 per thousand cubic meters, it was also the highest price in European history, which greatly increased the production costs of enterprises and the cost of living for residents.
For the gas crisis in Europe, EU officials and many officials have blamed Russia for this "fault". They believe that Russia's restrictions on energy supply have led to a serious gas demand crisis in Europe in the winter, which has greatly affected the normal economic order in Europe, "this is the ambition of the Russians, they use energy as a weapon." ”
At the same time, European Commission President von der Leyen also said that "the energy crisis has gradually spread to the entire supply chain in Europe." Enterprises can not bear the excessive cost of natural gas, chose to stop production, power companies also because of natural gas, had to raise the unit price of electricity, will have an indissoluble impact on the lives of European residents. And all because. Russia is unwilling to increase gas exports. ”
In response to such accusations, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded that the main reason for the European energy crisis is not Russia, but the United States. The United States has greatly reduced its supply to Europe, and at the same time, Europe has not planned its energy reserves in time in the summer, leading to the outbreak of the current crisis in Europe.
At the same time, many energy and economic experts also said that the main reason is that Europe itself, did not reserve enough natural gas in time, and encountered Asian countries, increased the import of natural gas, which led to Russia, can not provide enough natural gas in time!